Consultants were paid £17m to help UK prepare for Brexit border strife
Deloitte benefited the most from contracts linked to border plans, earning £4.9m
9 February 2021 • 6:00am
Consultants netted £17m from the Government’s border controls last year, as ports were forced to prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period.
Over eighty payments were made to six consultants last year for work with either the Border Delivery Group, the committee responsible for plans, or for other related contracts, HMRC data shows.
Overall the Government has spent over £50m on rent, logistics or consultancy on border delivery projects, including monthly payments of over £700,000 for the Ashford truck site.
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Matt Hancock says vaccination drive is a full seven-day service despite apparent drop in numbers at weekends - with health chiefs blaming data lag for dip amid calls to increase to 24/7 delivery
321,951 people received dose of Oxford or Pfizer vaccine on Thursday - followed by 328,260 on Friday
Figures - which include first and second doses - then drop to 280,390 on Saturday and 227,972 on Sunday
Public Health England today blamed the lower figures on reporting delays over the weekend
Matt Hancock insisted the rollout was a full seven-day service with the Government prepared to go 24/7
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As Covid-19 ripped through care homes and communities, junior health minister Lord Bethell came up with a novel way of fighting the relentless stress of the pandemic.
In an effort to buoy spirits, the peer told the House of Lords in May, his cocker spaniel Tilly was accompanying him to the office.
Tilly was not the only outsider to become a fixture at the Department of Health’s Victoria Street headquarters, where teams of private sector consultants spent long hours working on the Government’s coronavirus response.